To say it's been a bad week for Unity is the understatement of 2023. First they announced a terrible new Pricing scheme, then their customers revolted, as the week goes on though, it gets worse and worse for Unity, from threats from an employee shutting down their offices, to more studios threatening to leave, to scummy secret changes to their terms of service and back door deals with clients to get around the Unity Runtime Fee in an attempt to bury a competitor.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure godot is pretty up there from what I hear but that’s the extent of my knowledge.

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Godot is great at 2D and would be a great replacement for those games but lacks a lot of 3D stuff Unity users would miss. If someone is doing a 2D game tho... Godot is a fantastic option to go with.

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for elaborating.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is Godot a full engine? I thought it was a UGC platform (like Roblox)

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a full engine! It specializes in 2D games but their 3D support is growing rapidly, just not up to what Unity and Unreal offer right now. Here's a showreal they did for games released using Godot last year: https://youtu.be/UAS_pUTFA7o?si=QuPq6hByt-lve-vg

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Today I learned that Cruelty Squad was made in Godot.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah nice, I might check it out after my current projects

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Godot is a full engine, I would position it in the market somewhere between Unity and GameMaker Studio. It is capable of making 2D and 3D games, though there's some things Godot lacks, for example the asset streaming capabilities that allow for large seamless open worlds without loading screens, they're working on that.

Godot runs on WIndows, Mac, Linux various BSDs, and they're working on an Android port. Godot games can be exported to Windows, MacOS, Linux (and thus SteamDeck), BSD, Android, iOS and the web. Godot games can be ported to consoles, but Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are really fucky about licensing. The way you would go about publishing your Godot game to Playstation, Xbox or Switch is to work with a porting company who specializes in such things.

Fun fact: The Godot IDE is itself a Godot "game." The Godot editor runs in the Godot engine and is built from UI tools available to end users; this makes it pretty easy to create tools and extensions to customize the editor to your team or project's needs. It's also a practical demonstration of how robust Godot's UI creation tools are; I've been toying with the idea of building a woodworking CAD program in Godot.

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have literally no idea. It just pops up left right and center so it seemed it is a competitor.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like it's a full engine, that's pretty neat. I might have to check it out, though I'm on unreal ATM so unity drama doesn't affect me

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for elaborating. Unreal is supposed to be very good. How is their price model?

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's free until you make a million dollars (so basically it's free for me, probably forever 😭), after which they take 5%

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

In that case, it’s a pretty good model. Thanks for elaborating.